Robert Penn Warren

• 1946
• / Suspense
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. ...

• Jun-1949
• / General Fiction
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The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic. At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren’s second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction....

• Aug-1959
• / General Fiction
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In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters conv...

• Jan-1961
• / General Fiction
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In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig has left a Bavarian ghetto and sailed for America to join the Union Army. Fired by the revolutionary idealism of mid-nineteenth century Europe, he hopes to aid a cause which he believes to be as simple as he kn...

• Jan-1968
• / General Fiction
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A collection of Penn Warren’s best short fiction: two novelettes and twelve stories that skillfully handle a variety of themes and styles.”Worth reading for their craftsmanship and variety” (Charles Poore, New York Times).
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• Jan-1973
• / General Fiction
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First published in 1955, Band of Angels is one of the most searing and vivid fictional accounts of the Civil War era ever written. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic and teacher, and author of dozens of books, Robert Penn Warren was the only writer ...

• Feb-1977
• / General Fiction
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After achieving world renown as a classical and medieval literary scholar, marrying twice, fathering a son, and having an ill-fated love affair, uprooted and alienated Jed Tewksbury returns to his Alabama hometown to visit his mother's grave and make...

• Jul-1988
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1992
• / General Fiction
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Warren’s first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren’s innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by acti...

• Nov-1999
• / Literary
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In the admixture of wilderness and elegant society that was 1826 Kentucky, Jeremiah Beaumont, a brilliant, imaginative lawyer, stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure, the politician Colonel Cassius Fort. Now all the documents a...

• Oct-2003
• / Literary
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Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a rewarding, dramatic storyline while it probes the deeper philosophical search for self-definition in modern life and the symbolic demise of the agrarian South from technological progress. ...

• Apr-2004
• / General Fiction
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Remembering the Alamo is a tale of extraordinary courage and riveting adventure. For thirteen days, 189 men lead by Davy Crockett, Colonel William Travis and hopelessly outnumbered, held off the Mexican army lead by General Santa Anna at the Missi...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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